Kepler’s Laws Paredes
Across
- 3. describes how planetary bodies orbit the sun. There are 3 Laws!
- 4. a number that measure how much an object's orbit deviates from a perfect circle.
- 7. describes the movement a planet orbits around the solar system; oval shaped
- 8. the combined gravitational pull of the Sun and the Moon when the Earth, Moon, and Sun align in a straight line.
- 9. suitable or good enough to live in
- 10. inner rocky (land) planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Earth
Down
- 1. how the Sun and planets of our solar system formed from a giant, spinning cloud of gas and dust about 4.5 billion years ago
- 2. The center of mass of two or more bodies orbiting around each other
- 5. gaseous/icy planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; known as "Giants"
- 6. seven days after a spring tide—refers to a period of moderate tides when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other.